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Happy Memorial Day! Our gratitude to those who have served our country. We thank you.

We're alive! And well. And grappling with the 90 degree humid Memorial Day here at Jason's folks. Yikes! To go from sweaters and hot chocolate to naked kids playing with ice cubes to keep cool, all in one day…it's a bit [...]

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Ah, Cedar.

Today is a gorgeous day here. Which almost makes up for the yucky week we've just endured–storms, cloudiness, and rainrainrain. I'm walking around without my jacket, wearing a short sleeve shirt, enjoying the sparkling beach. If Cedar was like this more days of the year, it'd be really difficult not to live here.
Jason had a [...]

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da U.P.

We started realizing lately that the rest of the world has no idea what “the U.P.” is. People would ask us where we were going for such a long time, and when we told them, they would meet us with blank stares. I started to change my response to “northern Michigan, for Jason's job” and [...]

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Yes, Michigan!

Anyone remember the old Michigan theme song? We sing it every time we pass the “Welcome to Michigan” sign coming out of Toledo.
We made it just fine to Jackson Wednesday, then arrived in Reed City yesterday. We're enjoying our time here, and will leave for Cedarville tomorrow morning. Our van is holding up nicely, [...]

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Powered sun roof
Leather seats
Powered sliding door
Dual sliding doors
Powered driver's seat
Split third row seat
Six CD changer
Tape player, too!
Discovering new features every time we drive it

Call us sheltered, but we never buy these things in cars. They're totally amazing to us.

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purchased at the eleventh hour, by a masterful negotiator (yours truly):

Anyone care to name her? (Or him, perhaps?) We've had Maizie the Mazda and Tommy the Toyota in the past. And who could forget Daisy the Dodge? Or Matilda the Honda (whose moniker doesn't quite jam with our alliterative tendencies, but she was my first, [...]

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